Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only heard of it at the fashion college . |
| 2 | That is , previous readers would have grasped the play in Freeman 's terms , in so far as they validly comprehended it , but they would not have been aware of so doing , meantime foolishly talking of it in irrelevant , non-explanatory , " folk " ways . |
| 3 | Perhaps think of it as an action then . |
| 4 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 5 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 6 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 7 | By all means enjoy an autumn romance but do not think of it as anything more than that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You must not think of it like that , dear , ’ Stevie told her gently . |
| 9 | So it 's it 's vital that you get this exercise right and it , and you must n't just think of it as part of the study of History of Language , it 's not , it 's , it 's a er a definite part of your course . |
| 10 | She had not thought of it till now . |
| 11 | Although I know it 's a problem in the eyes of the public and the Health Service , I try not to think of it as a problem personally , y'know what I mean . |
| 12 | Every now and then Nora took such opportunities to remind Sarah of her fortune ; she tried not to think of it as a kind of hudsoning . |
| 13 | Just think of it as a loss leader and keep your fingers crossed . |
| 14 | Just think of it as bad luck . ’ |
| 15 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 16 | First of all you just think of it in words , the iron plus the oxygen gives iron oxide . |
| 17 | Over the next two months , we will be subjected to a barrage of argument , statistics and plain propaganda from Woolworths ( yes , call it Kingfisher if you want , but most people will still think of it as Woolies ) and from Dixons . |
| 18 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 19 | Did he ever speak of it with anyone ? |
| 20 | When I actually began to realize that there were advantages to being gay , that changed my whole attitude — up till then I had always thought of it as something to be sorry for , to apologize for . |
| 21 | I 've always thought of it as a sort of last resort . |
| 22 | I suppose I have always thought of it as a possibility but his actual decision to marry was a surprise . ’ |
| 23 | He had always thought of it as a superficial and outmoded gesture found only in old novels . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't say I 've ever thought of it as an obsession . |
| 25 | ‘ You have always spoken of it with scorn . ’ |
| 26 | I always thought of it as a loan . |
| 27 | Despite the MIDI nature of the JMP-1 , it 's useful still to think of it as a basic preamp . |
| 28 | Now this is not strictly a soul food recipe , but since Philadelphia is my home town and my family has eaten its way through tons of this , I always think of it as northern soul food . |
| 29 | I always think of it as the engine-room of the house . |
| 30 | Why did we always talk of it as ‘ the age of the Grammar School ’ ? |